I think you are seeing it in terms which are far too black and white. "i'm told he cheated therefore he's an evil bastard and she's a poor hapless victim" is the gist of it.

Well, you know, you might be right. It might be like that. But i've seen the inside of enough adult relationships to know that it's often inappropriate to assume that conclusion. Relationships on the inside are often very different to their appearance on the outside.

I don't know whether and to what extent Giggs has let down his family. It's simply not my business. It's not anyone's business but his and his family's, anymore than my family is your business or your family is my business.

And whatever he has done this unjustifiable media intrusion won't be helping any of them.

While i feel everyone has a right to protect their privacy(Giggs included), his taking out a gag order and suing those Twitter users who named him is just too extreme and ineed pathetic. He's made an outright jerk of himself by doing so.

You've obviously formed a judgement that he is a *bad* *boy* for having a "long standing affair".

As a matter of interest, do you know the internal state of his marriage? Do you know whether his wife has been faithful to him or if she has had ten affairs in the last five years? Do you know if she is a paragon of virtue or a lying drunkard who beats the kids? Do you know if they have sex three times a week or if she has refused to sleep with him for five years and tells him she'll leave him and take the kids if he makes overtures to her?

I very much doubt you do. I certainly don't. It's not my business, it's not your business. And without it being either of our business I'm not in a position to judge him. And neither, I think, is anyone else who has just read a few salacious stories in the trashy media.

Well, you *are* taking the moral high ground and in saying he has to bear the consequences (Eric's joke notwithstanding), in siding with the mob you are also inflicting the consequences of the media storm on the rest of his family and people who might be hurt by it.

Also, and I think this is a point you and everyone easily overlooks, you and I and the newspapers don't know the detail of it. We don't know whether any particular allegations are true and we don't know what context they came from. The papers don't care about this, their readers don't either but anyone wanting to sit in judgement of the individuals concerned ought to recognise they are speaking from a position of ignorance.

How would you like a mob of journalists invading your private life and reporting juicy stories they can find or make up? I presume you wouldn't like it at all. So what gives you or me the right to say it's okay to do it to someone else? That in your view, knowing almost no facts, he has behaved immorally? That justifies a complete invasion of his and his family's privacy?